Identifier: historyofkentuck03john (find matches)
Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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,Massachusetts, recently the summer home ofPresident Taft, his death occurring in thatcity when he was eighty-five years of age. Hiswife, whose maiden name was Adaline Au-gusta Choate, was born in Beverly, and be-longed to the family from which Rufus Choate,the celebrated lawyer, sprung. She lived tothe age of ninety years, and died in the veryhouse in which she was born and reared. Toher and her husband ten children were born,a goodly family. Edward Monroe Norwood had scholarlyambitions as a boy, and after attending theModel School in Westfield, Massachusetts, andWilliston Seminary, at East Hampton, Massa-chusetts, he began, when seventeen years old,the study of medicine with Drs. Welsh andBidwell. in Winsted, Connecticut. After a fewmonths in their office. Air. Norwood went toMonson. ATassachusetts, to study with Dr. S.T. Brooks, superintendent of the AlonsonState Reform School. Subsequently, when Dr.Brooks became superintendent of the JuvenileAsylum in New York City, he accompanied
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENIUCKIANS 1621 him, and was made assistant superintendentof the institution, a position that he held untiljust before the Civil war. When war betweenthe states was declared, Mr. Norwood repliedpromptly to the first call for troops, enlistingas a private in the Twelfth New York Volun-teer Infantry, and served with his commanduntil honorably discharged on account of theexpiration of his term of enlistment of onehundred days. Returning to New York City, he pursuedlectures there and graduated from the 3.1edi-cal Department of Columbia College. NewYork. Then the young Doctor was appointedassistant physician at Blackwells Island, wherehe remained about three months. Enteringthen the United States service as contract sur-geon, he came to Kentucky, and was soon madeassistant surgeon of the First Tennessee \ol-unteer Infantry, later becoming surgeon of theFourth Tennessee \olunteer Infantry, andcontinuing in service until the close of the war.Having in the meantime ma

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